Iraq’s Religious Minorities Are Being Slaughtered By The Islamic State

Iraq’s Religious Minorities Are Being Slaughtered And ISIS Just Captured The Last Town Giving Them Shelter -- Andrew Slater, Daily Beast

ISIS just captured the Iraqi town of Sinjar in the first major defeat of Kurdish forces. Religious groups that had taken refuge there are in imminent danger of being massacred.

In a major defeat for Kurdish forces the Iraqi town of Sinjar was captured Sunday by the group known as ISIS, now calling itself the Islamic State. This is the Kurds first major loss to ISIS and a catastrophe for the religious minorities who had taken refuge in the area and are now at imminent risk of being slaughtered.

Reports from the region describe an unfolding tragedy with young women being abducted, religious monuments destroyed, and the ISIS flag now hanging over government buildings.

Without Western champions and sympathizers, the non-Christian religious minorities of Nineveh province are being slowly exterminated, driven off, or forced into hiding.

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Update: UN warns of 'humanitarian tragedy' as militants seize town in northern Iraq -- UN News Centre

My Comment: And the world says nothing.

ISIS Militants Continue The Destruction Of Iraq's Cultural Treasures And The Extermination Of The Christian Faith

ISIS Militants Wreak Havoc On Iraq's Cultural Treasures -- FOX News

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the Sunni Muslim insurgent group who swept across northern and western Iraq earlier this year, menacing Baghdad in the process, has commenced the systematic destruction of the country's cultural treasures.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the group had destroyed a mosque in the northern Iraq city of Mosul that contained a shrine believed to be the tomb of Jonah -- who is revered as a prophet by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The paper reported that the militants had wired the periphery of the mosque with explosives and then detonated them.

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More News On ISIS Militants Continuing The Destruction Of Iraq's Cultural Treasures And The Elimination of Christians

Jihadists in Iraq Erase Cultural Heritage -- WSJ
ISIS militants blow up Prophet Jonas’ tomb in Iraq – video -- RT
Trampled in Abraham’s dust: The destruction of Near Eastern Christianity -- Jerusalem Post
Iraq’s Christians: Nearly all gone -- The Economist
After leveling Iraq’s Tomb of Jonah, the Islamic State could destroy ‘anything in the Bible’ -- Justin Moyer, Washington Post
Christianity as we know it in Iraq is being wiped out -- WND
Anglican Vicar: End of Christianity in Iraq Is 'Very Near' -- Breitbart
Does Jonah's tomb signal the death of Christianity in Iraq? -- Joel S. Baden and Candida Moss, Special to CNN

My Comment: And nothing but silence from our leaders in the West.